GoKawiilEducation is at a crossroads. People are having fewer kids, which means schools are bracing for lower enrollments. You can’t throw a rock on TikTok without running into an exhausted teacher ready to tear their hair out. And on top of this is the now-pervasive, often institutionally sanctioned use, and practically unprovable abuse, of AI both in and out of the classroom.
Detectors, homework helpers, essay writers, AI math wizards and even sneaky backdoor test assistants have entered the student-focused chats on cheating in a big way. Here’s a roundup of all the biggest tools and how they’re being used to get around old-school schooling.
Have AI write, and then re-write it again
The big names like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook) still appear to be the gold standard for getting away with skipping out on writing in school. I spent an afternoon slinging assignments in PDF format into all these tools and each generated polished, accurate responses in the form of persuasive and well-researched essays.
Most students and educators already know about these use cases, but what is surprising is the closed loop created by AI and plagiarism-detection tools.
Turnitin, for example, the plagiarism and AI detection tool widely used across university and grade school institutions to judge human work from robot-slop, now has features designed specifically to take AI-created text and turn it into material that passes its own checkpoints.
Turnitin/Screenshot by CNET
I prompted Gemini to generate the opening paragraph of a discussion post assignment and plopped it into Turnitin’s AI Text Detector. In seconds, it gave me suggested phrase changes meant to read “in a more natural, human voice,” and even provided reasoning for why these new, completely AI-generated phrases would now pass the test of an AI detection tool (like Turnitin) with flying colors.
In essence, the cops are helping the culprits get away with the heist. These companies are having their cake, eating it, throwing it up and selling it again as a muffin-of-the-month subscription.
I tried a number of AI text humanizers and tested them against AI detector tools, and after being “humanized,” every single blurb passed with flying colors.
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